Senior Quantity Surveyor & Cost Control

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.

• Enhance the Project’s commercial position with contractual mechanisms in order to limit Ground Transportation Systems exposure to risks and to maximize cost recovery.
• Manage commercial aspects of the project including regular invoicing Cycle, change management, variations, progress payments and commercial submissions, in order to protect company interests and improve the financial result of the project.
• Liaise with Financial Controller to facilitate and follow up of actuals, budget, and forecast, EAC.

The Quantity Surveyor & Cost Control shall work closely with Technical Engineer/ Managers and shall be responsible for post contract administration not limited to change control administration / cost reporting / on-site measurement / collation of supporting documents in relation to claims.

Changes:

• Support the negotiation of change orders and the identification of potential changes (variations).
• Review and contractually validate each Change Request and/or Change Proposal before forwarding for submission to the Employer.
• Maintenance of change management logs for specific project.
• Identifying and documenting change in coordination with the Design Managers and Project team.
• Preparing variation evaluations for all proposed variations / change orders in coordination with the relevant Project team members.
• Quantifying and estimating costs for all proposed variations / change orders.

Claims:

• Collection of all relevant cost data and information to support claim issues.
• Assistance in claim analysis and commercial evaluation of prolongation.
• Preparation of complete and comprehensive cost files to build the substantiation of prolongation costs.

Commercial:

• Prepare the monthly progress payment application with the client.
• Ensure quality and timeliness in delivery.
• Ensuring the highest professional standards, that all information is current.
• Support monthly cost reporting and input into project report
• Maintaining consistent and adequate administration procedures.
• Participate in Project meetings (internal and external: with the Employer, Hitachi Rail’s subcontractors and other entities) when scheduled and/or requested.

Financial:

• Facilitate data to Financial Controller to generate finance reports
• Liaise with Financial Controller to support building budgets, forecasts
• Support Financial Controller to follow up costs and deviations
• Lead Quarterly EAC review

Work experience, Qualification, Educational & Skills Requirements:

• 8+ years’ experience as Quantity Surveyor & Cost Control
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Previous experience on project of similar nature an advantage
• Knowledge and standing of FIDIC form of contract.
• Fluency in Arabic & English languages is a must.
• Advance Knowledge level in Excel and preferably good user of SAP
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills and meticulous
• Good experience of working on large scale of bid and projects in Transportation sector.
• Ability to work with several countries and stakeholders in a matrix organization.
• Multinational working experience.

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